Mohammed Badie

Mohammed Badie (7 August 1943-) was the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood from 16 January 2010, succeeding Mohammed Mahdi Akef.

Biography
Mohammed Badie was born in el-Mahalla el-Kubra, Egypt on 7 August 1943, and he received a degree in veterinary medicine from Cairo in 1965. That same year, he was arrested for his involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, and he was paroled after 9 years of a 15-year sentence. Badie became a pathology professor at the veterinary school of Beni Suef University, but he remained involved with the Brotherhood, becoming a member of its Guidance Bureau in 1996. In 2010, he became Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood. After Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's seizure of power in a military coup, Badie was arrested on 20 August 2013 and sentenced to several death sentences and life sentences for "terrorism". On 8 May 2017, he received a seventh life sentence.